Table 4 Association between health workers’ demographic characteristics and pharmacovigilance awareness, adverse drug reaction knowledge and attitude towards adverse drug reaction reporting
Variables | ADR knowledge | Attitude towards ADR reporting | PV Awareness | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Adequate (Score > 80%) | Inadequate (Score ≤ 80%) | Positive (Score > 80%) | Negative (Score ≤ 80%) | Yes | No | |
Age (year) | ||||||
18–40 | 9 (75.0) | 49 (72.1) | 26 (70,3) | 32 (74.4) | 39 (67.2) | 19 (86.4) |
> 40–60 | 3 (25.0) | 19 (27.9) | 11 (29.7) | 11 (25.6) | 19 (32.8) | 3 (13.6) |
FET = 0.044; p = 1.000 | X2 = 0.172; p = 0.679 | X2 = 2.925; p 0.087 | ||||
Gender | ||||||
Male | 1 (8.3) | 5 (7.4) | 2 (5.4) | 4 (9.3) | 3 (5.2) | 3 (13.6) |
Female | 11 (91.7) | 63 (92.6) | 35 (94.6) | 39 (90.7) | 55 (94.8) | 19 (86.4) |
FET = 0.014; p = 1.000 | FET = 0.435; p = 0.681 | FET = 1.647; p = 0.338 | ||||
Marital status | ||||||
Single | 6 (50.0) | 15 (22.1) | 6 (16.2) | 15 (34.9) | 17 (29.3) | 4 (18.2) |
Married | 6 (50.0) | 53 (77.9) | 31 (83.8) | 28 (65.1) | 41 (70.7) | 18 (81.8) |
X2 = 4.113; p = 0.043* | X2 = 3.580; p = 0.058 | X2 = 1.020; p = 0.312 | ||||
Educational qualification | ||||||
Primary | 0 (0.0) | 1 (1,5) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (2.3) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (4.5) |
Secondary | 0 (0.0) | 2 (2.9) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (4.7) | 1 (1.7) | 1 (4.5) |
Tertiary | 12 (100.0) | 65 (95.6) | 37 (100.0) | 40 (93.0) | 57 (98.3) | 20 (90.9) |
FET = 1.051; p = 1.000 | FET = 6.506; p = 0.021* | FET = 7.847; p = 0.017* | ||||
Professional cadre | ||||||
Nurse | 8 (66.7) | 12 (17.6) | 7 (18.9) | 13 (30.2) | 19 (32.8) | 1 (4.5) |
CHO | 0 (0.0) | 24 (36.3) | 15 (40.5) | 9 (20.9) | 15 (25.9) | 9 (40.9) |
CHEW | 2 (16.7) | 28 (41.2) | 12 (32.4) | 18 (41.9) | 20 (35.4) | 10 (45.5) |
Health assistant | 0 (0.0) | 4 (5,9) | 1 (2.7) | 3 (7.0) | 2 (3.4) | 2 (9.1) |
Physician | 2 (16.7) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (5.4) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (3.4) | 0 (0.0) |
FET =21.435; p < 0.001* | FET = 6.555; p = 0.136 | FET = 9.139; p = 0.039* | ||||
Years of experience in PHC | ||||||
≤ 1–5 | 10 (90.9) | 43 (78.2) | 22 (68.8) | 31 (91.2) | 35 (74.5) | 18 (94.7) |
> 5 | 1 (9.1) | 12 (21.8) | 10 (31.2) | 3 (8.8) | 12 (25.5) | 1 (5.3) |
FET = 0.939; p = 0.678 | X2 = 5.242; p = 0.022* | FET = 3.514; p = 0.088 | ||||
Previous training in PV | ||||||
Yes | 4 (33.3) | 7 (10.3) | 7 (18.9) | 4 (9.3) | 11 (19.0) | 0 (0.0) |
No | 8 (66.7) | 61 (89.7) | 30 (81.1) | 39 (90.7) | 47 (81.0) | 22 (100.0) |
X2 = 4.565; p = 0.033 | X2 = 1.551; p = 0.213 | FET = 4.838; p = 0.030* | ||||